St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-14
A Breezy Budget of Gossip Gathered
and Sifted by the Globes Special
Correspondents.
Bismarck Booming Again---The City to
Have Water Works and Plenty Of
Electric Lights.
How Maj. Quinn Forced the Territorial
Railway Commission to Hold Its
Sessions at Bismarck.
a Fargo Citizens Experience in Sand
StOrm---BOard of Trade---The
North Dakota League.

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
BISMARCK, May 12.-It is, perhaps, of
interest to the reading public to know
that the capital city of Dakota has at
last entered upon an era of permanent
material prosperity. The cloud of
gloom which for three years has lowered
over the smOuldering ruins of the dead
boom of 1888 is slowly but surely lift
ing its black and impenetrable form,
and the golden rays of the sunlight of
prosperity are shining in beneath, and
rejecting back upon the darkness of
the departing cloud of adversely the
silver lining of future possibilities.
The ashes of the dead past will soon
give back a life of increased beauty,
acuYity and endurance. Already the
vital current has begun to flow, the
great business heart has given
conscious fiutter, and the eyes are wide
open. TO the untiring energies and
liberal patronage of such men as Col.
y. II. Bly,, Alexander Mckenzie, Editor
Nj. ID. Jewel, Hon. Alexander Hughes,
Col. c. b. Little and Harvey Harris, is
due this f1attering transformation. The
word comes from Col. e. Ii. Bly, at
Chicago that the contract for
CITY WATER WORKS
has just been signed, selaed and deliv-
cred, and that work will be commenced
at once. The Importance of this news
to the city may be better understood
when it is known that the plans adopted
contemplate the expenditure of over
100000, most of which will find its way
INTO the hands of the laboring and bust
ness men of the city. Aside from the
employment of labOrers and the eXpend-
lture OF large amount of money which
the enterprise neceSSitateS, the improve
ment is one OF which the city has been
and is sorely in need. The system of
electric lights which was adopted by the
city, the contract for which was let two
weeks ago, is under process of rapid
construction, and within twenty DAYS
from this time Dakotas capitol will be
under the blaze of not less than $4,000
candle electric power. The chief source
of regret which every good and loyal
citizen is now experiencing is the
Tagging DISPOSITION
of certain class of capitalists and prop
erty owners, in responding to the ur-
gent demand for a small amount of
means to secure the building of the
Aberdeen, Bismarck IL Northwestern
railroad during this summer. The com
sSnlttee reports that about 800 still re-
mains to be secured before the contract
can be closed. This is certainly a small
amount and might be advanced by any
one OF a number who have not yet con-
tributed, without taking a drop from
the bucket of fortune. But the REQUISITE
amount will soon be raised. A move
ment is now Oh foot among the public
spirited women of the city to start
wOman's subscription list. This Ger
tainly should touch the chivalry of our
men, and rouse them from the sleep of
indifference, if anything yet remains
sufficiently potent to produce that eff
feet. Gov. Church has been in
the city for several days diligently
engaged in answering several hundred
letters which accumulated during his
absence, and in attending to the duties
of his Office. He has recently been ne
gOtiating for the purchase of
AN ELEGANT RESIDENCE,
with the intention of moving his family
to the capital city. The governor, like
all good men who endeavOr to faithfully
perform the duties of public trust,
finds that fidelity, integrity and honor
are not universally appreciated ele-
ments in the moral character of pub
lie official. There are those who sol
emily claim to be of the same political
faith, who would doubtless be pleased
to see his foot slip upon the pavement
of political honesty, and his body tum-
bic forever out of sight. All this, too,
because there were not appointive Off
ces enough to accommodate the Surging
thrOng of political aspirants who pre-
sented themselves at the sacrificial altar.
1t is unfortunate that in politics there
are always greater number of aspirants
than there are positions to be filled.
Gov. Church has suffered from this mis-
fortune, but his administration grows
in strength each day, and guided, as he
has shown himself to be, by an honest
endeavOr to bring the greatest good to
the greatest number, he will proudly
outlive the spirit of petty spite and
existed towards him. Il